VOV.VN - Japan’s Vice Minister of Defence for International Affairs Serizawa Kiyoshi visited the Vietnam Department of Peacekeeping Operations in Hanoi on February 27, during which both sides looked into co-operation opportunities in UN peacekeeping moving forward.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has requested State-owned enterprises (SOEs) to reform governance, improve production and business efficiency, and strongly promote development investment.

Domestic and international scholars and economists on February 22 attended a discussion in Hanoi to review the socio-economic development of Vietnam in the last 30 years and propose measures for the country to respond to new challenges in the coming time.

VOV.VN - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has requested the Ministry of Public Security to consider the expansion of visa exemptions for citizens of some countries in accordance with the new context and bilateral cooperation.

VOV.VN - Despite facing global headwinds, Ho Chi Minh City, the country’s largest economic-financial centre that was hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021-2022, secured high growth in 2023, creating an essential prerequisite for the city to move ahead in 2024 and beyond.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has asked for a renewed mindset in building laws and issuance of mechanisms and policies to mobilise the general strength for development, emphasising that institutions, mechanisms, and policies are the sources of national development.

Credit growth will be the main focus for the banking industry in 2024, as it is closely related to economic growth, according to analysts.

As the room for the fiscal policy remains quite large, Vietnam in 2024 should continue to pursue the counter-cyclical fiscal policy, with a focus on increasing spending and maximising tax and fee exemption and reduction, to support economic growth, experts believe.

VOV.VN - Competent Vietnamese agencies are formulating additional breakthrough support policies aimed at luring strategic investors amid fierce competition in foreign investment attraction and the imposition of the 15% global minimum tax in 2024, reported Dau Tu (investment) newspaper.

VOV.VN - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chigh outlined Vietnam’s major development orientations in its policy line during a policy dialogue in Davos, Switzerland, on January 16 afternoon (local time) on the sidelines of the 54th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) 2024.